Quotes About Introspection

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

I have been thinking, my love, and on my return, I would like to reveal the truth of us, of myself. I am tired of this restrictive masculine role.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt other people.

The knowledge of my depravity is the only thing that makes me special... that I have always always always known, and have never for a moment been able to forget, that there is something terribly wrong with me.

I used to feel sorry for them, or sad. Not so much any more. Now I wonder what they did, and I know what they did, and all I can think is how all that water is barely enough to cover it up.

I worry that we all just sat around, after a while, trying to enjoy a ride that was never meant to be fun.

It was something he would figure out only after Bobby dumped him: that his imagination was what made the real world, and real people, only barely palatable for him.

At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.

Las dos proposiciones siguientes son ciertas: (a) Si tuviera la ocasión, Abbott no cambiaría ni uno de los elementos fundamentales de su vida, pero (b) Abbott no soporta su vida.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

I don't know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn't want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.

No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride.

Great coaches are necessary to help you think through whether you should think what you think you should think.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.

I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.

Look at us, won't you? We are nation of glorious cowards, ready to battle any evil but our own.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.